{"id":80003,"date":"2025-12-10T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80003"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:44:48","slug":"abuja-residents-express-mixed-feelings-ahead-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/abuja-residents-express-mixed-feelings-ahead-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Residents Express Mixed Feelings Ahead of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Residents of the Federal Capital Territory are expressing mixed reactions as preparations for the 2025 Christmas season gather momentum, with rising transport fares, insecurity and fluctuating food prices shaping their plans.<\/p>\n<p>While some welcomed a drop in the prices of select food items, others said safety concerns and soaring transport costs had forced them to adjust their holiday plans.<\/p>\n<p>Chibuzor Charles said he cancelled his annual trip to Enugu after fares rose to about \u20a6100,000, nearly double last year\u2019s cost.<\/p>\n<p>Many residents said they started preparations early to beat festive inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher Tola Adeniran said she had already bought most of her Christmas supplies, while public transport driver David Oche noted he had been saving daily to cope with higher seasonal expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Some also reported improvements in market prices. Teacher Faith Okafor said several food items were cheaper this year, and seamstress Joy Adebola noted that a large bowl of rice had dropped from \u20a695,500 to \u20a655,000.<\/p>\n<p>Though chicken prices had increased, she said she would still buy some for her family.<\/p>\n<p>For others, the season will be spent at work. Counter server Mary Okechukwu said she would be on duty on Christmas Day, noting that her role offers no festive break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Residents of the Federal Capital Territory are expressing mixed reactions as preparations for the 2025 Christmas season gather momentum, with rising transport fares, insecurity and fluctuating food prices shaping their plans. While some welcomed a drop in the prices of select food items, others said safety concerns and soaring transport costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80005,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80003\/revisions\/80005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}